ALCHABITIUS [i.e. AL-QABISI, Abu Al-Saqr 'Abd Al-'Aziz Ibn 'Uthman Ibn 'Ali] (fl. c.950). Astronomie iudiciarie principia tractans . Lyons: Guillaume Huyon for Bartholomeus Trot, [c.1520].
ALCHABITIUS [i.e. AL-QABISI, Abu Al-Saqr 'Abd Al-'Aziz Ibn 'Uthman Ibn 'Ali] (fl. c.950). Astronomie iudiciarie principia tractans . Lyons: Guillaume Huyon for Bartholomeus Trot, [c.1520]. Small 4° (198 x 138mm). Title printed in red and black, Trot’s device on title, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, woodcut initials. (Very lightly and evenly browned throughout, a few spots in the margins.) 19th-century marbled wrappers (paper partly torn away on spine, rubbed). Provenance : Michael Chasles (bookplate) – Etienne Récamier (bookplate). Alchabitius was a famous Arabic astrologer of the tenth century, whose principal work was al-Madkhal ila ?ina'at ahkam al-nujum ('Introduction to the art of astrology'), 'an introductory exposition of some of the fundamental principles of genethlialogy … it was highly valued as a textbook’ (DSB). The present work contains Joannes de Saxonia's commentary on al-Qasbisi's work, as well as the notes of Petrus Turrellus. BM STC French , p.1.
ALCHABITIUS [i.e. AL-QABISI, Abu Al-Saqr 'Abd Al-'Aziz Ibn 'Uthman Ibn 'Ali] (fl. c.950). Astronomie iudiciarie principia tractans . Lyons: Guillaume Huyon for Bartholomeus Trot, [c.1520].
ALCHABITIUS [i.e. AL-QABISI, Abu Al-Saqr 'Abd Al-'Aziz Ibn 'Uthman Ibn 'Ali] (fl. c.950). Astronomie iudiciarie principia tractans . Lyons: Guillaume Huyon for Bartholomeus Trot, [c.1520]. Small 4° (198 x 138mm). Title printed in red and black, Trot’s device on title, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, woodcut initials. (Very lightly and evenly browned throughout, a few spots in the margins.) 19th-century marbled wrappers (paper partly torn away on spine, rubbed). Provenance : Michael Chasles (bookplate) – Etienne Récamier (bookplate). Alchabitius was a famous Arabic astrologer of the tenth century, whose principal work was al-Madkhal ila ?ina'at ahkam al-nujum ('Introduction to the art of astrology'), 'an introductory exposition of some of the fundamental principles of genethlialogy … it was highly valued as a textbook’ (DSB). The present work contains Joannes de Saxonia's commentary on al-Qasbisi's work, as well as the notes of Petrus Turrellus. BM STC French , p.1.
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